Saturday, July 27, 2024
It’s hard to adjust to life-changing events when you don’t know what to expect. For redshirt sophomore forward Courtney Williams, dealing with a new school, coach and teammates has been stressful. Williams transferred from Loyola University of Chicago to the University of Detroit Mercy in the summer of 2015 because […]
Nicole Urbanick is a very quiet person. If she did not wear basketball warm-ups, most students would not know she is a basketball player. Urbanick is a student in the pre-dental program – on top of being a starter on the women’s basketball team. To say she has a lot […]
Coach Ray McCallum is our head coach, but our assistant coaches have a lot of experience, too. Coach Jermaine Jackson was able to experience what it’s like to be in the NBA, coach Steve Payne took his talents overseas and played in one of the best leagues there for 14 […]
The men’s basketball team has lost its fair share of close basketball games at home over the last three years. Most of these games have come in non-conference play. A bad call vs. Bowling Green last year is the freshest in the minds of Titan fans. Close losses to Toledo […]
UDM student-athletes who do not follow the rules must endure punishments from their coaches. Freshman Jalen Gibson plays basketball for the Titans and finds coach Ray McCallum’s rules manageable. “You have to go to class every day, be on time, you can’t be late to anything, because if you are […]
New UDM women’s basketball coach Bernard Scott knows he has to put in a lot of hard work. Every day at practice, he literally wears a red hard hat to emphasize the point. His task isn’t made any easier by the fact that he now has only nine players on […]
This last week was the last we had of just practice on our schedule. As of Monday, the season has opened. Coming up, we will be having at least two games a week if not more. And so what did we do the last full week of practice in order […]
Head coaches are the face of their sports programs, but without assistants on staff to back them up they wouldn’t have much of a chance for success. In his new positions as head coach of the women’s basketball team, Bernard Scott has three assistants to help him turn the program […]
ldquo;You can’t chase the night. When the night is over, the night is over. That’s just the way it is.” William Wesley, better known as World Wide Wes, was speaking on the nightlife, but it applies equally to life after college for athletes, especially basketball. Evan Bruinsma is still […]
The season has been extremely busy so far with having morning film, practice and weights, as well as practice in the afternoon. It has been tiring going up against your teammates and the same guys over and over again. This weekend we played in Chicago against DePaul University. This was […]
